[Las Vegas] While Schonox has been a Germany-based business for more than 120 years, it has recently reached out to the U.S. market in order to introduce its full line of problem solving products.

According to Rex Revard, regional business manager, brand awareness in the U.S. is important. “We’re a self-leveling company, but we’re also a lot more. We are everything from the substrate up,” said Revard.

The company offers an array of products from Schonox APF — a fiber-reinforced, low stress, patented synthetic gypsum based self-leveling compound — to Roll and Go, a rollable acrylic adhesive suitable for Luxury Vinyl Tiles (LVT). At Surfaces, the company was able to demonstrate these products and Revard said they met with a lot of people during the Las Vegas venue.

Each product in the HPS Schonox arsenal addresses tough subfloor issues allowing projects to be completed faster, with high quality products while keeping the environment in mind, according to the company. Every primer, moisture mitigation product, self-leveling compound and adhesive qualifies for contribution to the Low-Emitting Materials LEED credits while others include dust reducing properties and recycled content.

“Unlike a lot of traditional self-leveling products, we are able to go over critical substrates that our competitors can’t. It allows us to put products in the hands of people who would walk away from a job or have to start deconstructing,” said Revard. Deconstruction involves added equipment like jack hammers and grinders (which increase cost) that demolish an existing critical substrate and create dust and cause landfill issues.

Karen Bellinger, Schonox business development, added, “A lot of times you are in a healthcare situation and you can not disturb surrounding areas. You have a well bonded vinyl, ceramic or linoleum and we can prime it and pour right over it. Or going over glue residue, you used to have to scrape it, now we’re saying you can pour right over it and there’s no dust.”

According to Bellinger, the future is renovation, and even when it seems like deconstruction is the only way to correct a critical substrate, there may be a solution.

“So that’s why this is so great. The more critical your substrate gets, we have a solution for that,” said Bellinger.